Events

Current & Upcoming Exhibitions

Pangolin London’s Sculpture Trail
Summer 2024

Miradas ecofeministas en el arte ecuatoguineano. An ecofeminist look into the Equatoguinean art
at the Spanish Cultural Centres in Bata and Malabo (Equatorial Guinea)
4 October - 22 December 2024 (Bata)⎢February 2025 (Malabo)

Baney Clay Part IV at Thrown Contemporary
October 2024⎢Online only


Past Talks

Decolonisation of Ceramics Practice
Online, February 2, 2024
Roundtable hosted by Basil Bolton and the British Art Network

Words x Objects
Design Academy Eindhoven, Milan Design Week 2023
Live radio roundtable with Bisila Noha (Design Can/Ceramicist), Delany Boutkan (DAE alumnus/researcher), Ever Peng (DAE/Elevator Radio), Libby Sellers (curator/writer) and Anna Winston (Chief Editor at DAE) exploring language as a design tool in its own right: a tool for forming, changing and challenging the world around us.
The discussion can be listened to on Design Academy Eindhoven’s Elevator Radio SoundCloud.

‘What’s in my Home’
The Lab E20, February 8, 2023
‘Regenerative by Design’ is a cultural programme produced by RAEBURN and supported by Get Living celebrating London’s cultural innovation across Climate Action, Low Carbon Living and the Circular Economy.

Making a Living - Why Get Into Craft with Annie Warburton & Panel
Two Temple Place, March 1, 2022
CEO of Cockpit Arts Annie Warburton in conversation with Body Vessel Clay artist Bisila Noha and ceramicist, Channel 4’s The Great Pottery Throwdown judge, Rich Miller and textile artist Onome Otite, asking how and why they work in art and craft, and how they address the need to make – and the need to make a living.

Riposte & Uniqlo - Giving Thanks & Taking Care
Tate Modern, November 28, 2021
A talk chaired by journalist and author Charlotte Jansen that included Bisila Noha, ceramicist; Maya Njie, perfumier; Vicky Spratt, journalist; Mark Miller, head of programme and partnerships at Tate Modern; and Maria Samoto le Dou, head of sustainability at UNIQLO

Craft, Code, Print and Grow: Tools for Modern Making
Design District, September 22, 2021
Panel discussion with Simone Brewster, Map Project Office and Bisila Noha. Chaired by Annie Warburton. Curated by Nick Compton (Wallpaper* magazine).

≍ Contemporary Craft: Crafting Identities and Communities
Watts Gallery Artists' Village, 8 March 2021

Make Networking Work for You
British Ceramics Biennial. Factory programme for artists, makers and creatives, 19 February 2021

An Exploration of History, Heritage and Identity through Clay
Ceramics for Charity, August 2020

Baney Clay: An Unearthed Identity. The story and inspiration behind it.
Thrown Contemporary, June 2020
Password: Bisila


Past Exhibitions

1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, NYC
1 - 4 May 2024
Represented by Kó

The Time is Always Now at the National Portrait Gallery
22 February - 19 May 2024
Artists Reframe the Black Figure, curated by Ekow Eshun.
I will be showing a selection of pieces at the exhibition’s shop

La Sustancia del Ser at El Apartamento
22 February - May 2024
A selection of young Spanish artists around an analysis of the most recent trends within Conceptual Art.

Eclipsed Visions at Galerie Revel
4 April - 12 May 2024
Contemporary Perspectives by Women Artists

In Clay at Upstairs at the Gatehouse
11 March - 7 April 2024
A group exhibition accompanying the one-woman performance ‘In Clay’ based on the true story of artist and potter, Marie-Berthe Cazin.

Collect Art Fair at Somerset House
28 February - 3 March 2024
Represented by Thrown Contemporary

Untitled Art, Miami
6 - 10 December 2023
Represented by kó

Art X, Lagos
2 - 5 November 2023
Represented by kó

MATÉRIALITÉS at Galerie Revel
11 May - 30 July 2023
A group exhibition raising questions of representation, gender, social and politics.

Abstract at Cambridge Contemporary Art
29 April - 21 May 2023

Collect 2023 at Somerset House
3 - 5 March 2023
Represented by Thrown Contemporary as part of their presentation ‘Grounded’, a curated collection exploring heritage, material and landscape, in room S4.

Within+Without at Unit London
7 March - 6 April 2023
Within + Without brings together 12 contemporary artists working within the historically gendered mediums of textiles and ceramics, and exploring powerful representations of our inner and outer worlds.

'Uprooting, Rerooting: Matter and the construction of the self' ⎢Solo exhibition at Galerie Revel
20 October 2022 - 08 January 2023
This show brings together my largest body of work to date, produced and presented as a whole. The collection includes pieces from the past, present and future.

Radical Acts at Harewood
March - September 2022
An exhibition exploring the power and potential of craft as a mindset, more than a physical product, to push general preconceptions that craft is quaint or nostalgic, and without place or purpose in life today, or tomorrow.

Body Vessel Clay: Black Women, Ceramics and Contemporary Art at York Art Gallery
24 June - 18 September 2022
An exploration of how ceramics have been disrupted, questioned and reimagined by Black women over the last 70 years. See press release from Two Temple Place here.

≍ 'Who Has Seen the Wind?' at Chelsea Space
4 - 9 July 2022
An exhibition celebrating female identities in the medium of ceramics, curated by MA Curating & Collections students at Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London, inspired by the poem “Who Has Seen the Wind?” by English Victorian writer Christina Rossetti (1830 – 1894)

Body Vessel Clay: Black Women, Ceramics and Contemporary Art at Two Temple Place
January - April 2022
An exploration of how ceramics have been disrupted, questioned and reimagined by Black women over the last 70 years.

FiredUp4 x MAAK charity auction
May 2022
A fundraising auction by Kate Malone MBE to retrofit, equip and staff two pottery studios in the OnSide Youth Zones of Wigan and Chorley, giving over 10,000 young people access to clay and all of the benefits on a daily basis.

Collect Art Fair at Somerset House, London
23 - 27 February 2022
Represented by Thrown Contemporary

Ash, Ember, Flame: A Japanese Kiln in Oxford
December 2021 - March 2022
Discover anagama kilns through ceramics produced in a special collaborative firing of the Oxford University Kilns' smallest anagama

Winter Show at Atherton Green Art Gallery
December 2 - 21, 2021

’Colour in Clay’ at Watts Contemporary Gallery
September - October 2021
An exhibition celebrating colour in ceramics in all its forms.

'Maker's Eye' at Crafts Council Gallery
July - October 2021
The first exhibition in the new Crafts Council Gallery. In the largest presentation of the Crafts Council collection to date, the exhibition presents 150 craft objects made in the UK over the course of the Crafts Council’s 50-year history, as selected by 13 makers and one curator.

‘Summer Show’ at Thrown Contemporary
July - August 2021
A special pop-up exhibition featuring leading and emerging names in contemporary ceramics.
And online via
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Cornwall, UK

'OFF - Focus Céramiques d'art', curated by Artskop3437
June - July 2021
A duo show that presents two ceramic artists Bisila Noha and Jan Ernst de Wet. Both artists use clay to explore issues that are relevant to our contemporary times.
Bordeaux, France

Shoreditch Design Triangle - Cabinets of Curiosity
London Design Festival
September, 2020

≍ ‘GATHERERS’ at Thrown Contemporary
May - August 2020
A virtual and physical group exhibition showcasing 11 artists from all over the world and their distinctive connections to their materials.
VISIT NOW on WWW.GATHERERS.CO

Edinburgh Art Fair
November 2019
Represented by Thrown Contemporary.

≍ SOLO EXHIBITION at SAGE, as part of Peckham Festival
September 13 - 15, 2019
PRESS RELEASE AVAILABLE HERE.

Doddington House. Summer of Ceramics
July - September 2019

‘On the Edge of the Light’ Exhibition at Thrown Contemporary
March - April 2019
A group show focusing on artists reacting to and capturing fringes of light, darkness, shade and haze.

London Art Fair
January 2019
Represented by Thrown Contemporary.

≍ Barbican Openfest - Ceramics Fair
March 2018
60 contemporary artists from Turning Earth will gather to sell their work in the unique setting of the Barbican's Conservatory Terrace and Garden Room. 

≍ FAZ Feria de Arte de Zaragoza
March 2018 

≍ 'In Suspense' Exhibition at Thrown Contemporary
The gallery's inaugural exhibition, exploring distinctive approaches to surface.
March 22 - April 18

≍ Earth -土-​ Exhibitions & Sales at Chalice Gallery
Plates - March 2018
Bowls - May 2018
Vases - July 2018

Set styled by Victoria Tunstall for the Barbican Ceramics Fair in March 2018.

Set styled by Victoria Tunstall for the Barbican Ceramics Fair in March 2018.